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Panel to select NCERT chief formed

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUNE 2. The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry today set in motion the process of changing the director of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) that has been at the centre of the ``saffronisation of education'' controversy.

The Ministry has set up a five-member Search Committee under the chairmanship of the former Chairman of the University Grants Commission, Yashpal, to choose a successor for J.S. Rajput who has held the post of NCERT Director since July 14, 1999. His five-year term is due to end on July 13 this year.

The other members are the former Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, P.N. Srivastava, the Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for Women, Jashodhara Bagchi, the former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Mushir-ul-Hasan, and the Secretary in the Ministry's Department of Secondary and Higher Education, S.C. Tripathi, who will be member convenor of the Search Committee.

Though the Ministry has opted for the least controversial option of finding a replacement for Dr. Rajput — who presided over the change in the national curriculum and school textbooks — the academic community is of the view that action ought to be taken against him for ``allowing the NCERT to subvert its autonomy by giving in to the diktats of the previous government.''

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